Do These 5 EASY Steps to Find Your PERFECT Foundation Match‼️(Brown & Olive Skin Friendly🤎), by Monica Ravi-Conway on YouTube. 19 min 49 s.
- Video length
- 19 min 49 s
- Time to do it
- 20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 9
What you need
Steps
Start with depth. Pick three shades around your guess: one lighter, your best guess and one deeper. Get the depth right before you think about undertone.
Stripe each shade along your jawline and down onto your neck, not on the back of your hand. Your hand is often a different colour from your face.
Step into daylight with a small mirror. The shade that melts into your jaw and neck with no visible line is your depth match.
Now check undertone. Compare the swatches for warm, cool, neutral and olive, and look at the veins on your inner wrist and how gold versus silver jewellery reads on you.
If your skin looks green or greyish, treat yourself as olive. Look for shades labelled olive, green or golden beige, because standard warm shades can turn orange on olive skin.
Judge how muted or saturated you are. If bright shades look loud on you, choose a softer, greyer shade. If muted shades look flat, choose a clearer, richer one.
Apply your shortlist to half your face, one shade per side, and leave it for 20 to 30 minutes. Foundation darkens as it dries, so the wet swatch is not the final colour.
Check the dry result in daylight across your face, neck and chest. If two shades are close but neither is right, buy both and mix them on the back of your hand.
Set the winning side with a powder close to your shade and look again in daylight before you buy a full bottle.
Tips and common mistakes
Always judge a shade in daylight, since shop lighting makes almost everything look like a match.
Never swatch only on your hand or arm, because your face and neck usually differ in depth and undertone.
Let the foundation dry fully before deciding, as many formulas settle half a shade darker.
Take a daylight photo with your phone to spot a mismatch line more easily.
Questions
Should I match my face or my neck?
Match to your neck and jaw so your face and body agree. If your face is darker than your neck, blend the shade down rather than matching the darkest part.
Why does my foundation look orange or ashy?
Orange usually means the undertone is too warm or too saturated for you. Ashy or grey means it is too light or too cool, which is common on olive skin.
What if I sit between two shades?
Buy both and mix a drop of each on your hand. Mixing also lets you adjust through the year as your skin changes.
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